Having to wait for South Africa's decision (expected about October) on Calls for bids it issued for huge military hardware contracts for which among others tendered several French firms (ION N° 802) means French head of state Jacques Chirac will [.
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Five Ethiopian opposition movements-in-exile on June 17 called on fellow supporters in Ethiopia to halt military operations against the Ethiopian [...]
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A precarious moratorium on aerial bombing eased the military confrontation between Eritrea and Ethiopia this week but left open the [...]
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The secretariat of the Lusaka-based Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) is in the throes of being revamped. [...]
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Comoros Islands head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim is still vainly trying to wheedle an invitation out of France [...]
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When head of state Mohamed Taki Abdul Karim left Moroni to attend the Organization of African Unity (OAU) annual summit [...]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission headed by Ms. Ledle Schmitz which counselled the Malagasy authorities to crack down on [...]
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In a letter dated May 29, Seychelles finance minister James Michel informed the Speaker of Parliament, Francis MacGregor, that in [...]
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Posted as a commercial attaché in the Sudanese embassy in France since 1995, Mamoun Ali Abdellah has made himself many [...]
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The US Bank Colorado CEO has just been voted onto [...]
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The new man in charge of Indian Ocean dossiers in [...]
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Zimbabwe's agriculture minister announced on June 18 the postponement of [...]
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South Africa's minister of mineral and energy affairs announced on [...]
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Following an article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter ("The joys [...]
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Raila Odinga, leader of National Development Party (moderate opposition, Luo [...]
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Kampala's new mayor Nasser Sebaggala was arrested by US authorities [...]
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A revolution is in the making in the policy of strict control of immigration to Mauritius: the council of ministers [...]
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No less than thirty-one enterprises or consortia have expressed their interest in realizing two 55-MW diesel-fuelled electricity power plants according [...]
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The brusque (although momentary) devaluation of Zimbabwe's dollar in November 1997 led the management of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) [...]
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The Eritrean government has recently constituted, in each of the ministries concerned, cells charged with managing the projects financed by [...]
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Uganda's fiscal revenues should reach 991.8 billion shillings for Fiscal 1998-1999 (commencing July first), up slightly from 1997-1998 (870 billion [...]
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Khartoum is multiplying its efforts to acccredit the idea of a forthcoming take-off of its petroleum industry. At the end [...]
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Not content with extending his investments into other countries of East Africa (ION N° 811), Saudi Arabian magnate Mohamed Hussein [...]
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French development services are to collaborate with the Projet d'Appui Institutionnel à la Gestion Publique (Paigep) financed by International Development [...]
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Britain's Civil Aviation Authority in association with Gibb (Mauritius) has [...]
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Seychelles Hotels Association has finally decided to ask the Seychelles [...]
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World Bank head of operations for Madagascar Michael Sarris will [...]
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Government has just granted an operating licence to the first [...]
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A professional of the hotel sector, Frank S. Karake, has just been designated chairman of Uganda Tourism Association (UTA), replacing [...]
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One of the four advisers of head of state Yoweri Museveni, major Roland Kakooza (in charge of political affairs) is [...]
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The elder of the sons of the late president Ahmed Abdallah, Nassuf Abdallah, was recently designated Comoros Islands ambassador to [...]
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In the stakes to find a successor for Banque de Développement de Maurice (BDM) director general Radhakrishna Prabhu, who has [...]
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